Paul Wunderlich

About

Paul Wunderlich was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and printmaker born on March 10, 1927, in Eberswalde, Germany. He studied graphic arts at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 1947 to 1951, where he later taught lithography and etching. After military service and a brief period as a prisoner of war, he worked in the academy's print workshop, producing prints for artists like Emil Nolde and Oskar Kokoschka. In 1960, he moved to Paris, returning to Hamburg in 1963 as a professor until 1968, when he resigned to focus on freelance work. His early style was modernist figurative and abstract-figurative, evolving in the late 1950s into a surrealist, symbolist approach influenced by Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Salvador Dalí, often featuring erotic, mythological themes and dismembered bodies. He collaborated with his wife, photographer Karin Székessy, and created works in painting, drawing, lithography, sculpture, jewelry, and furniture, including paraphrases of classical artists like Dürer, Ingres, and Rembrandt.[1][2][3][4][5]

Surrealist with erotic and mythological themes, linked to Fantastic Realism and Magical Realism